The 2025-26 Indian home cricket season will kick off with the duleep trophy, which shall be performed from August 28 to September 15. Pink-Ball Event Returns to its conventional zonal format with six groups: north zone, south zone, east zone, west zone, central zone, and north East zone.
This season the event shall be performed on the new middle of excellence in Bengaluru and can function India Take a look at Captain Shubman Gill Together with Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Shadul Thakur, Kuldul Thakur, Kuldep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh and Abhimanyu Easwan, who all was a part of the current concluded anderson-tendulkar trophy.
Gamers like shreyas iyer, ishan kishan, and mohammed shami, who’re eyeing their comeback will even be in motion.
Duleep Trophy 2025: Format
Final season, the duleep trophy was performed in a round-robin format. Nonetheless, the return to the zonal format marks the comeback of the knockouts.
4 Groups, Central, East, North and Northeast, will play the Quarterfinal Spherical. Then again, the finalists of the Earlier Zonal Version (2023) – South Zone and West Zone – Have Acquired Direct Entry to the Semifinals, Going through the Winners of the Quarterfinals.
Duleep trophy 2025: full schedule
Quarter-Finals
August 28-31, 2025: North Zone vs East Zone-Venue: Bcci Coe Floor 1, Bengaluru
August 28-31, 2025: Central Zone vs North East Zone-Venue: Bcci Coe Floor 2, Bengaluru
Semi-finals
September 4-7, 2025: South Zone vs Winner QF1-Venue: Bcci Coe Floor 1, Bengaluru
September 4-7, 2025: North Zone vs Winner QF2-Venue: Bcci Coe Floor 2, Bengaluru
Last
September 11-15, 2025: Last-Venue: Bcci Coe Floor 1, Bengaluru
Duleep trophy 2025 squads
South zone squad: Tilak Varma (c), Mohammed Azharuddeen (VC), Tanmay Agarwal, Devdutt Padikkal, Mohit Kale, Salman Nizar, Narayan Jagadeesan, Tripurana Vijay, R Sai Kishore, Tanay Tanay Thyagarajan, Vijaykumari Vyshak, Nidheesh MD, Ricky Bhui, Basil NP, Gurjapneet Singh, Snehal Kauthankar.
East zone squad: Ishan Kishan (c), Abhimanyu Easwaran (VC), Sandeep Patnaik, Virat Singh, Denish Das, Sridam Paul, Sharmaep Singh, Kumar Kushagra, Riyan Parag, utkarshing, utkarsh, manishi, surjhu jaiswal, mukhase Kumar, Akash Deep, Mohammed Shami.
West zone squad: Shardul Thakur (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Aarya Desai, Harvik Desai (Wicket-Keeper), Shreyas Iyer, Sarfaraz Khan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Jaymeet Patel, Manan Hingrajia, Sarabh Nawale (Wicket-KERABHALE) Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Dharmandrasinh Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Arzan Nagwaswala
North zone squad: Shubman Gill (C), Shubham Khajuria, Ankit Kumar (VC), Ayush Badoni, Yash Dhull, Ankit Kalsi, Nishant Sandhu, Sahiil Lotra, Mayank Dagar, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Arshdeep Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Harshp Singh Anshul Kamboj, Auqib Nabi, Kanhaiya Wadhawan.
Central zone squad: Dhruv Jurel (C/WK), Rajat Patidar, Aryan Juyal, Danish Malewar, Sanjeet Desai, Kuldeep Yadav, Aditya Thakare, Deepak Chahar, Saransh Jain, Ayush Pandey, Ayush Pandey, Ayush Pandey, Shubham Sharma, YASH RABHAM SARMAA, Harasheod, Harasheod Dubey, Manav Suthar, Khaleel Ahmed
North East Zone Squad: But to be introduced